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Workshops

Thursday Workshop 1: Choose from one session below
(workshop summaries and descriptions [PDF])

Emergency helicopter relief – informing pilots where to fly - by MapAction
- where are they? – plot sites of urgent need
- we can’t land there! – determine helicopter landing zones
- where was that? – geo-locate hazards using imagery
The Olympics differential; a gold standard in mapping - by Leica Geosystems
- inform and update cartographers about real-time GNSS positioning on the Olympic site
- practical demonstration of a range of GNSS solutions using real-time corrections and a Web Mapping Service
- discuss applying high-precision GNSS in different environments
Making a practical transit map - by Mark Ovenden
- understand how and why ‘form follows function’
- discuss what is meant by aesthetics - is it objective or can any generic ‘rules’ be applied
- discuss whether a map can be used for marketing

Friday Workshop 2: Choose from one session below (workshop summaries and descriptions [PDF])

The Collected Landscape - by Liam O’Connor
- think individually and collectively about creating maps from a personal encounter with a landscape
- discuss the role of subjectivity in the mapmaking process
- discuss the visual and written language of mapping
Creating web maps - by Esri
- learn how to make the most of ArcGIS.com
- learn how to create and publish maps to the internet (webmaps) using free Esri tools
- use ArcGIS for Desktop 10.1 to streamline the workflow for publishing online content
Maps for growing minds - by BCS Design Special Interest Group
- compare the design of various map products for children’s education
- engage the cartographic community with the needs of practicing children’s educators
- share design ‘good practice’ for children’s mapping
Visit to Astrium Geo-Information Services, Farnborough - additional fee applies - see Booking Page
- tour of the image processing and archive facility
- view mapping examples from natural disaster zones as part of the SAFER project
- view UK mapping products

Presentations

Thursday Session 1: Changing Times (summary and speakers biographies [PDF])

Place names and politics on the Antarctic Peninsula - by Adrian Fox, British Antarctic Survey and Jane Rumble, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
A century of geographical names: toponymic evolution in Somalia - by Caroline Burgess, UK Permanent Committee on Geographical Names [SLIDESHOW]

Changing views of a changing planet - by Benjamin D. Hennig, University of Sheffield [SLIDESHOW]

Thursday Session 2: Transport Mapping (summary and speakers biographies [PDF])

Transport maps for major event planning - by Clare Seldon, Steer Davies Gleave
Freight Journey Planner for Transport for London - by Freddie Talberg Public Information Exchange [SLIDESHOW]

Friday Session 3: The ‘Art’ in Cartography (summary and speakers biographies [PDF])

GIS as an artistic medium - rendering the sublime - by Daniel Beech, Aberystwyth University [SLIDESHOW]

Friday Session 4: Olympic Mapping (summary and speakers biographies [PDF])